found: The 10 greatest gay composers, via Limelight magazine website, February 28, 2016, viewed on June 30, 2017(In many ways a typical Frenchman, Poulenc was undoubtedly one of the first openly gay composers with a fair few identifiable lovers; in 1928 he proposed a marriage of convenience to Raymonde Linossier, but she made it quite clear that she had no intention of becoming his 'beard')